Faculty Technology Days

All EVDS faculty, students and staff are invited to:

Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology
May 6-8, 2008
www.ucalgary.ca/ftd

Libraries and Cultural Resources, the Teaching and Learning Centre and Information Technologies are pleased to present the annual Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology, May 6-8, 2008.

This year a real highlight is our keynote session on May 6 which will focus on Social Networking and the Academy. Ryerson University has brought issues of ‘good' and 'bad’ use of social networking to the fore. Where do you stand? A panel of experts on social networking as a communication and learning tool will discuss the pros and cons of social networking in the academy. How useful a tool is this method of communication? How do the students perceive the value of virtual communication, vs. how do faculty see it? What are the issues? Please come and join in the discussion.

All sessions are free to Faculty and Graduate Students, including lunch on the day(s) you attend any session.

Registration ends May 1, 2008

Research sessions of interest:

* Being an effective research assistant
* Beyond the ivory tower – disseminating your research
* Copyright in the digital age
* Support for your thesis - a three part session on starting, researching and writing
your thesis
* EndNote and Refworks bibliographic software
* Taylor Family Digital Library update

Resources:

* Current Awareness Services for Environment and Energy Research
* World of citations, citation analysis and citation tracking
* Your stock portfolio: tips from the business library

Instructional technology:

* Classroom technology: Bio-Informatics Computer lab
* Facilitating Group work using Blackboard
* Getting Feedback from Students
* Rediscovering Smartboards for classroom instruction
* Using e-journals and e-portfolios in a professional faculty
* Weblogs as personal repositories
* Blackboard essentials

Software:

* Drupal to build websites
* Digitizing your collection
* Getting started with Breeze
* Oracle Calendar
* Office 2007
* PeopleSoft PER

Phone registration: 220-8895
Online registration: http://www.ucalgary.ca/ftd/sessions (if your email is not recognized, ignore the error message and click the "continue" button.)

Faculty Technology Days - You're Invited!

Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology

May 2 - 4, 2007

Libraries and Cultural Resources, the Teaching and Learning Centre and Information Technologies are pleased to present the annual Faculty Technology Days: Teaching and Learning with Technology, May 2 - 4, 2007.

All Faculty and Graduate Students are invited to register and attend the free sessions. You are also invited to register for a complimentary lunch – a time to chat and reconnect with colleagues. All sessions will be held in the Education Block.
Whether you are interested in new resources, the latest in blended learning techniques, or refreshing yourself on the basics, there are sessions for you.

Research sessions will include citation tracking tools, EndNote and RefWorks a new web-based bibliographic software product, tips on getting started on your thesis and a DSpace update.

Specialized Resources sessions will include an introduction to the new classical music library, GIS data on the Internet, and finding Canadian legal information.

Technology sessions will provide an opportunity to catch up on what’s new plus a refresher on the basics of Blackboard, PowerPoint and Word collaboration tools.Plan to attend a PeopleSoft session on PER, the new PeopleSoft Faculty Centre or PeopleSoft Student Centre.

Instructional sessions will focus on enhancing inquiry based learning and instruction through the use of technology to develop blended learning approaches, develop assessment techniques and hear from your colleagues on how they have applied successful blended learning strategies in their course.

A three part session on starting, researching and writing your thesis will be of interest to graduate students.

New sessions of interest:
Hard play: digital game based learning and information literacy
Taylor Family Digital Library – a look forward
Psychology Instruction Project: bootstrapping blended learning with student instruction.
Podcasting – an overview of the Podcasting initiative.
All sessions are free to Faculty and Graduate students

Registration deadline is May 1, 2007

Register Online at http://www.ucalgary.ca/ftd starting April 19, 2007
Phone registration: 220-8895

For further information contact:
Susan Beatty, Head, Information Commons
sdbeatty@ucalgary.ca Phone: 220-2629